There are two types of holes. There is the horizontal and the vertical hole. The horizontal excavation tells you about the site at a given time. Such as the rubbish pits there defensive arrangement, and the arrangements they made to keep animals. . The Vertical excavation tells you about the relationship there is before and after it.
The technique of digging the hole horizontal has an advantage for shallow sites and where the horizontal picture is more important then the vertical picture. An example would be the Paleolithic and the Mesolithic sites where the remains of any buildings are rare. The Vertical excavation tells archaeologists about the relationship there is before and after it. In the early decades of the 20th century when archaeology, was concerned about the excavation techniques that had to be concentrated on focusing on the vertical dimension. The best-known way of figuring it out was Sir Mortimer Wheeler’s box or grid system. This meant that the site had to be divided up into squares.
There is no categorically way having to dig in every case. Each site must be assessed meaning what the landscape of what the site is on and the circumstances are. Laying out the site they must make a contour survey of the land (earthwork plan) in detail to show the terrain before any land is removed. Whenever archaeologists make a layout and put markers in. They always must have part of the layout outside of the excavation in case the markers that show the reference point get knocked over they can put them back in the same spot.
There are two types of holes. There is the horizontal and the vertical hole. The horizontal excavation tells you about the site at a given time. Such as the rubbish pits there defensive arrangement, and the arrangements they made to keep animals. . The Vertical excavation tells you about the relationship there is before and after it.
The technique of digging the hole horizontal has an advantage for shallow sites and where the horizontal picture is more important then the vertical picture. An example would be the Paleolithic and the Mesolithic sites where the remains of any buildings are rare. The Vertical excavation tells archaeologists about the relationship there is before and after it. In the early decades of the 20th century when archaeology, was concerned about the excavation techniques that had to be concentrated on focusing on the vertical dimension. The best-known way of figuring it out was Sir Mortimer Wheeler’s box or grid system. This meant that the site had to be divided up into squares.
There is no categorically way having to dig in every case. Each site must be assessed meaning what the landscape of what the site is on and the circumstances are. Laying out the site they must make a contour survey of the land (earthwork plan) in detail to show the terrain before any land is removed. Whenever archaeologists make a layout and put markers in. They always must have part of the layout outside of the excavation in case the markers that show the reference point get knocked over they can put them back in the same spot.